Hi,
I'm using a heavily tweaked CentOS 5.4 for desktop installs (here's what it looks like: http://www.microlinux.fr/captures.html).
For every app I install, I try to configure a sensible default configuration system-wide for all users. For example, once I found a nice configuration for XMMS (default skin, loads of plugins, orange On Screen Display in a nice font, etcetera), I put my whole ~/.xmms in /etc/skel, so that every new user on the system will have the same default configuration. I have a script which does that for most of the applications I install for users. Even my GNOME desktop is heavily tweaked, and similarly, there's a default /etc/skel/.gconf for this.
Now I have two annoyances remaining: Firefox and OpenOffice.org. When installing both of these (Firefox from the CentOS repos, OpenOffice.org from the RPMS contained in openoffice.org's tarball), the default configuration for each one (in ~/.mozilla and ~/.openoffice.org) takes no less than 3 MB, which I find a bit puzzling. Since I keep all my default configurations in an SVN tree, I find this a bit heavy.
For Firefox, I only change a couple of options (like "Close download manager after finishing downloading" and "always ask where to store a file"). Similarly, for OpenOffice.org, I change things like auto-completion (so users won't call me on a sunday morning asking "Why does it try to finish my sentences?").
I guess the "real" configuration must be some small plain text file. But then, where? Is there a way not to upload the whole 3 MB of configuration?
Cheers,
Niki
At Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:15:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm using a heavily tweaked CentOS 5.4 for desktop installs (here's what it looks like: http://www.microlinux.fr/captures.html).
For every app I install, I try to configure a sensible default configuration system-wide for all users. For example, once I found a nice configuration for XMMS (default skin, loads of plugins, orange On Screen Display in a nice font, etcetera), I put my whole ~/.xmms in /etc/skel, so that every new user on the system will have the same default configuration. I have a script which does that for most of the applications I install for users. Even my GNOME desktop is heavily tweaked, and similarly, there's a default /etc/skel/.gconf for this.
Now I have two annoyances remaining: Firefox and OpenOffice.org. When installing both of these (Firefox from the CentOS repos, OpenOffice.org from the RPMS contained in openoffice.org's tarball), the default configuration for each one (in ~/.mozilla and ~/.openoffice.org) takes no less than 3 MB, which I find a bit puzzling. Since I keep all my default configurations in an SVN tree, I find this a bit heavy.
For Firefox, I only change a couple of options (like "Close download manager after finishing downloading" and "always ask where to store a file"). Similarly, for OpenOffice.org, I change things like auto-completion (so users won't call me on a sunday morning asking "Why does it try to finish my sentences?").
I guess the "real" configuration must be some small plain text file. But then, where? Is there a way not to upload the whole 3 MB of configuration?
There is a file named 'prefs.js' in the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<mumble>.default/ directory. Here are some other 'magic files' there you might want to 'standardize':
extensions* (some files and a directory): extensions live here (if there are some 'standard' extensions you want all your users to have, eg your company's / organization's toolbar) localstore.rdf: contains things like your toolbar arangements (if there is some 'standard' settings for your company / organization) places.sqlite: bookmarks (if there is some 'standard' set of bookmarks)
Cheers,
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Robert Heller a écrit :
There is a file named 'prefs.js' in the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<mumble>.default/ directory.
Now this creates another problem. I manually tested this, and it works ok. But when I try to work with /etc/skel, I have some unexpected behaviour.
Say I put prefs.js in /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/yahonga.default
When I create my user, his ~/.mozilla now has two prefs.js files.
1) in /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/yahonga.default
2) in /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/yatahongaga.default
Now where does this catwalksonthekeyboard.default directory come from? What is it possibly good for? And, more interestingly, how can I put my user preferences under /etc/skel/.mozilla so Firefox actually finds them without me having to jump through burning loops first?
Cheers,
Niki
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Now where does this catwalksonthekeyboard.default directory come from? What is it possibly good for? And, more interestingly, how can I put my user preferences under /etc/skel/.mozilla so Firefox actually finds them without me having to jump through burning loops first?
iirc user .mozilla dirs get pulled from /usr/lib/firefox-<version>/defaults/profile/prefs.js
Not quite as friendly as skel, but you may want to make your mods there.
At Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:59:13 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Robert Heller a écrit :
There is a file named 'prefs.js' in the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<mumble>.default/ directory.
Now this creates another problem. I manually tested this, and it works ok. But when I try to work with /etc/skel, I have some unexpected behaviour.
Say I put prefs.js in /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/yahonga.default
When I create my user, his ~/.mozilla now has two prefs.js files.
in /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/yahonga.default
in /etc/skel/.mozilla/firefox/yatahongaga.default
Now where does this catwalksonthekeyboard.default directory come from? What is it possibly good for? And, more interestingly, how can I put my user preferences under /etc/skel/.mozilla so Firefox actually finds them without me having to jump through burning loops first?
I don't really know. You might not be able to use /etc/skel and instead patch /usr/lib/firefox-<mumble>/defaults/profile/prefs.js instead as part of the post-install/update of firefox.
Cheers,
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